Rochester Institute of Technology is Wikipedia IRL

[ylevental]

https://old.reddit.com/r/rit/comments/1 ... s/mlotqxm/

RIT used to be so much fun, because everyone was nerdy and they would let you do whatever you wanted. Over the past few years, however, they became very strict about everything. As a result, campus is really boring and orwellian. Glad to be leaving soon, but I still don't have a job lined up.

[ericbarbour]

Well, don't feel TOO bad. Higher education in general has been declining in quality, while prices go berserk. Places on the west coast that are similar to RIT, like Evergreen State College and CSU Humboldt, have also become paranoid prison-like compounds.

You should see UC Berkeley today. It is one of the most crowded campuses I've ever seen. It was always a crazy place but now it looks like a wartime POW camp, with barbed wire and cops and guards everywhere. Can't enter any building without ID and written permission. Metal detectors are commonplace. Homeless people everywhere. Rampant street crime and drug abuse, among the highest in the US.

How's this for paranoia?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... 85225.php/

[boredbird]

Wasn't there some crazy Wiki admin from RIT called User:KrispieKreampie? Or maybe User:Limpet, can't remember. An actual girl which is pretty unusual since the rest of them besides User:Valeree are all trans.

[ylevental]

Well, don't feel TOO bad. Higher education in general has been declining in quality, while prices go berserk. Places on the west coast that are similar to RIT, like Evergreen State College and CSU Humboldt, have also become paranoid prison-like compounds.

You should see UC Berkeley today. It is one of the most crowded campuses I've ever seen. It was always a crazy place but now it looks like a wartime POW camp, with barbed wire and cops and guards everywhere. Can't enter any building without ID and written permission. Metal detectors are commonplace. Homeless people everywhere. Rampant street crime and drug abuse, among the highest in the US.

How's this for paranoia?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... 85225.php/

I guess this is happening everywhere then.

[ericbarbour]

Wasn't there some crazy Wiki admin from RIT called User:KrispieKreampie? Or maybe User:Limpet, can't remember. An actual girl which is pretty unusual since the rest of them besides User:Valeree are all trans.

Such a silly boy.

Francine Rogers
Yet another transgender Wikipedian. An alumnus of Rochester Institute of Technology. As Krimpet showed up on Wikipedia in January 2007, and an editor review in March attracted very little notice. Most of her editing was trivial in nature. Yet only one month after the review, she passed an RFA, albeit just barely. Although she supported the insider viewpoint, Fran was noted for unusual honesty (for an administrator) as well as popularity. She was a regular on various noticeboards for years and often voted in AFDs. Occasionally she was attacked by certain less-than-honest insiders. [211][212]

She changed her account to Fran Rogers in 2011. It appears she abandoned Wikipedia in December 2014 -- there was no activity thereafter, and she was desysopped in January 2016 for inactivity.

[badmachine]

It appears she abandoned Wikipedia in December 2014 -- there was no activity thereafter, and she was desysopped in January 2016 for inactivity.

good for her/them

[Strelnikov]

Well, don't feel TOO bad. Higher education in general has been declining in quality, while prices go berserk. Places on the west coast that are similar to RIT, like Evergreen State College and CSU Humboldt, have also become paranoid prison-like compounds.

You should see UC Berkeley today. It is one of the most crowded campuses I've ever seen. It was always a crazy place but now it looks like a wartime POW camp, with barbed wire and cops and guards everywhere. Can't enter any building without ID and written permission. Metal detectors are commonplace. Homeless people everywhere. Rampant street crime and drug abuse, among the highest in the US.

How's this for paranoia?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... 85225.php/

All of the big UC and CSU schools are overcrowded because they have spent a lot promoting these schools out of state and internationally because they can charge more for those students. The police mentality is the aftermath of COVID plus the average college administrators' hatred of protests (because they scare the money.) Never forget that the enrollment cliff of 2028-31 is coming; we don't know if it will be truly crushing, or just a deeper slump.